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00:00:37.760 I've got bad news, and I've got worse news. The bad news is that the Democrat governor of New

00:00:43.380 Jersey believes there is a 50-50 chance of recession. Do we need this budget surplus right

00:00:49.240 now to survive some difficult days ahead? Yeah, I think we do, is the short answer. And you're

00:00:54.600 right. The budget I signed a couple of months ago had a surplus of $6.8 billion. I think the budget

00:01:01.280 the year before we got here was $440 million. And by the way, on top of the $6.8 billion,

00:01:07.640 we've got another over $5 billion in either a debt avoidance or a debt defeasance fund.

00:01:13.680 And I thought the prior conversation that Joe had on the prospects of a recession at about 50-50,

00:01:20.360 that seems right to me. So we don't want to get caught out. New Jersey's been caught out before,

00:01:26.100 and we are determined not to get caught out again. Our job is to make sure we deliver affordability,

00:01:32.420 that we've got enough in the bank for a rainy day, and that we outperform other like states.

00:01:39.160 And those are our obsessions right now. Murphy thinks there's a 50-50 chance of recession.

00:01:44.640 That's the bad news. The worst news is that there's actually a 100% chance of recession

00:01:50.180 because we have officially been in a recession since July 28th. Because a recession is defined

00:01:56.060 as two consecutive quarters of negative GDP growth. And we're there, and we've been there for a while.

00:02:02.240 That's the bad news and the worst news, both of which add up together to the worst news of all.

00:02:07.700 The Democrats are now out of options. They have no other way to make themselves at all palatable

00:02:13.660 to the American people other than to lie. And you can expect those lies to become more extreme by the

00:02:19.380 day as we approach the midterm elections. I'm Michael Knowles. This is the Michael Knowles Show.

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00:04:27.920 your one month free. The lies are becoming more egregious. Yes, politicians lie. Yes,

00:04:35.720 the Democrats lie in particular. But the lies are becoming more egregious because if the Democrats had

00:04:40.960 anything whatsoever to hang their hats on for the midterm elections, they would be focusing on that.

00:04:46.780 But they don't have it. They don't have it on the economy. They don't have it on foreign policy.

00:04:49.900 They don't have it on immigration. They don't even have it on public health, which was the most

00:04:53.520 favorable issue for them previously. So now they are just lying about everything. You want to see

00:04:58.780 an example of how they lie. This clip is going viral. And I think actually most conservatives

00:05:05.480 who are reacting to it are missing the point of the clip. It's Stacey Abrams denying that when a fetus,

00:05:12.320 quote unquote, when a little baby in the womb gets a heartbeat, that that is actually a heartbeat.

00:05:17.680 There is no such thing as a heartbeat at six weeks. It is a manufactured sound designed to

00:05:25.120 convince people that men have the right to take control of a woman's body away from them.

00:05:31.560 When you go into the doctor's office and you hear that little baby's heartbeat,

00:05:35.580 that's not really a heartbeat. That's manufactured. That's what Stacey Abrams is saying.

00:05:38.920 And the conservatives who are watching this are saying, lady, you're completely nuts. You're

00:05:41.900 totally making that up. That's ridiculous. Actually, though, it's more insidious than that,

00:05:47.140 because the way Stacey Abrams is lying here is the way that Democrats lie most effectively,

00:05:52.780 which is that there is a little tiny kernel of an almost little grain of truth there

00:05:58.220 around which Stacey Abrams can build a much more powerful lie. And the little tiny, little bitty

00:06:04.240 itty grain of truth is this. When you go into the doctor's office and you hear that fetal heartbeat

00:06:08.440 at six weeks, the sound you are hearing is in fact sort of manufactured. The heartbeat is not

00:06:16.500 manufactured, but the sound that you are hearing sort of is because at that time, the heartbeat that

00:06:23.220 your baby has is not actually audible. The heartbeat that your baby has is observed by observing electrical

00:06:31.920 pulses from the heart. But she's got a point. The heart that your baby has at that time is not

00:06:38.280 exactly the same as the heart that you have right now or the heart that you will have in 50 years or

00:06:44.400 the heart that you had when you were five years old. It's true. Your heart is developing.

00:06:49.860 And your heart, your whole body is developing from the moment of conception. And your heart is

00:06:54.480 developing from those very, very early weeks onward throughout pregnancy and then throughout the rest

00:06:58.880 of your life. So what is happening is the sonogram technology is interpreting the electrical pulses

00:07:07.140 in the early stages of that heart development and making it sound like a heartbeat. But where Stacey Abrams

00:07:14.300 is wrong is that's not being made up out of whole cloth. That's not being just totally fabricated. The machine

00:07:19.800 is just interpreting those electrical pulses, which are the basis of the heartbeat. Those little electrical pulses

00:07:26.760 that the machine is interpreting as do-do, do-do. That is what your heartbeat is and will be for the rest of your life.

00:07:33.240 A way to think of it is when sweet little baby June comes up to me, my little 20-month-old kid,

00:07:39.940 and he comes up to me and he wants to watch TV. Sometimes we'll let him watch a little bit of TV.

00:07:44.880 He really likes this one random YouTube channel, which is just a series of clocks. It's called

00:07:50.840 Clock TV. I don't know. The kid is just obsessed with clocks. And so he'll come up to me and he'll say,

00:07:57.140 Daddy, da-da, I would like to watch Clock TV now. I want to watch that young man's clock collection.

00:08:02.340 So could you please go to the Apple TV and then turn on YouTube and then search for Clock TV

00:08:06.960 and then click on that particular video and then we can watch that together, da-da, please?

00:08:11.980 No, wait a second. That's not what he says. What he actually says is,

00:08:14.920 T, right? That when my little kid wants to watch that specific thing, because that's really all he

00:08:21.920 ever wants to watch, he just comes up and he goes, T? He doesn't even say TV. He can't quite say that yet.

00:08:27.840 So he says, T, and then I interpret that to mean, Daddy, I want to watch TV and on YouTube and I want

00:08:35.180 to watch specifically this channel on YouTube and specifically this video. And my interpretation

00:08:40.180 of that is correct, but he is not saying all of that yet because he's a little itty-bitty baby.

00:08:46.760 The signal that's coming out requires some interpretation, but that interpretation is

00:08:53.620 correct in what that thing is signifying. It's the same thing with your baby's little heartbeat.

00:08:58.260 But Stacey Abrams doesn't want to admit that. She doesn't want to admit that babies have little

00:09:02.020 heartbeats because she wants to justify killing them to the tune of 850,000 per year. You're seeing

00:09:06.480 this kind of lying with the way that the libs are talking, obviously, about transgenderism. Did you see,

00:09:12.840 oh my gosh, did you see, the Forbes Women's Summit? You could not make this up. The Babylon Bee could

00:09:19.480 not do a satirical article about this. Forbes held a Women's Summit. And the Women's Summit invited

00:09:27.440 women's rights advocates and online influencers and all sorts of, you know, all sorts of big women.

00:09:35.700 And one of the women that the Forbes Women's Summit invited is a guy named Dylan Mulvaney,

00:09:42.260 who is a guy who thinks that he's a woman. And he's come to some prominence on TikTok for his

00:09:48.080 Days of Girlhood series. This is the guy that they invited to personify, to exemplify the very best

00:09:56.740 of women. Day 66, being a girl, and today I'm in nature. Trees? I love them. Water? Lakes? I love

00:10:06.300 them. Heels? They're my hiking heels. I love them. Okay, come on. Bridges? Love them. Coconut water? Love it.

00:10:20.240 Not an ad. Just love it. Wind turbine. Love it. Meadows. Love them.

00:10:27.240 The hills are alive.

00:10:29.240 With the sun.

00:10:30.600 The music.

00:10:31.440 Oh.

00:10:32.300 I'm scared of getting Lyme disease.

00:10:36.760 Love ya.

00:10:38.340 Ah!

00:10:40.140 Oh.

00:10:41.800 Did you see that?

00:10:43.880 I gotta get out of here.

00:10:44.980 Did you see that?

00:10:48.060 It was a dragon.

00:10:49.040 Oh my god. Never again. Get me out of here.

00:10:51.880 Love ya.

00:10:52.920 That's just what women are like, right?

00:10:55.100 This man, prancing around in booty shorts with a little bra on, playing up this extremely foppish

00:11:01.460 face, sort of fear of a little bug, and flitting about, and throwing himself on the ground.

00:11:06.060 That's just what women are like, right?

00:11:08.000 Isn't that what women are like?

00:11:09.240 No, not at all.

00:11:09.900 That's not at all what women are like.

00:11:12.020 That's what men with a bizarre sexual fetish are like.

00:11:16.120 There's another, he's explaining what it's like to be him.

00:11:21.140 He's explaining the absolute horror that some people would believe that he's actually a man.

00:11:27.000 Day 62 of being a girl, and I have been misgendered so many times this week, and most commonly,

00:11:33.020 it's a follower running up to me on the street and being like, you're the boy from TikTok.

00:11:38.060 It's the boy from TikTok.

00:11:39.280 And I'm like, no, it's the girl from TikTok.

00:11:42.220 And they always feel so bad after I correct them, and that's so not my intention.

00:11:46.400 It doesn't hurt my feelings all that much.

00:11:48.500 But I wear all this makeup and sometimes fake boobs and the hair, and it still doesn't register

00:11:54.580 with people at times.

00:11:56.180 And I was just wondering if there's anything I can do on my end for you all to see me more

00:12:02.440 as a girl.

00:12:03.920 I know it's not my job.

00:12:05.220 I was just curious.

00:12:07.600 No, there's absolutely nothing you can do.

00:12:10.000 Could you believe it?

00:12:11.120 Could you believe that some people would think that guy is a man?

00:12:13.320 That guy, he says, look, I dress up like a Betty Boop caricature of what some man might

00:12:20.700 think a woman at her most absolutely absurd caricature could be.

00:12:27.280 And some people still think that I'm a man.

00:12:29.940 Could you imagine that?

00:12:31.520 Could you possibly imagine that?

00:12:33.880 And I know it's not my job to show people that I'm really a woman.

00:12:37.280 But of course, he's not really a woman.

00:12:38.960 And the things he's doing are extremely absurd and disordered and ridiculous.

00:12:44.040 And we wouldn't tolerate it from any other person.

00:12:45.600 It reminds me of Family Guy, that voice crying out in the wilderness, Family Guy, which explains

00:12:50.040 this phenomenon.

00:12:51.500 Excuse me, ma'am.

00:12:52.460 No porn at the bar.

00:12:53.680 Oh, it's OK.

00:12:54.260 I'm transgender.

00:12:55.280 Oh, I had no idea.

00:12:57.060 Do whatever you want all the time.

00:13:00.540 No, no, no.

00:13:01.680 Sir, you don't understand.

00:13:02.900 I'm allowed to do absolutely anything whatsoever because I'm saying I'm transgender.

00:13:06.900 And what does society say?

00:13:07.760 Oh, yes.

00:13:08.760 Yes, of course.

00:13:12.520 This guy who shows up to the Forbes Women's Summit dressed up like some ridiculous caricature

00:13:19.320 of a woman and flitting about and mocking women and making a whole mockery of the concept

00:13:25.780 of womanhood.

00:13:27.520 How do we deal with this?

00:13:29.400 The way that conservatives are dealing with this now is we're saying you're not really

00:13:34.200 a woman.

00:13:34.960 Boom.

00:13:35.560 Owned with facts and logic.

00:13:36.620 You have a strong jawline, sir, and you don't have the body parts of a woman and you're

00:13:41.460 not, boom, owned.

00:13:42.640 Science.

00:13:44.020 But that's not enough.

00:13:46.060 Do you know what that guy's going to say?

00:13:47.080 He's going to say, F your science.

00:13:48.880 Who cares?

00:13:49.920 I don't care about your stupid science.

00:13:52.340 Take your science and shove it.

00:13:53.620 I'm going to dress up like a lady because I say I'm a lady and you can't stop me.

00:13:56.960 Who's going to stop me?

00:13:58.040 And this is where we get to what the real conservative response has to be.

00:14:04.660 Who cares?

00:14:05.640 Who cares if I'm dressing up like a woman?

00:14:09.400 Me.

00:14:10.500 I care.

00:14:12.060 Who's going to stop me from dressing up like a woman and behaving this way?

00:14:15.040 I guess, I guess I can't speak for you all.

00:14:18.360 I'll just speak for myself.

00:14:20.220 Me.

00:14:21.080 I would very happily stop you from doing that.

00:14:24.660 I think that you, sir, and all men out there, have an obligation not to behave that way.

00:14:33.340 You have an obligation not to go outside in little booty shorts and a bra and a big silly

00:14:39.520 wig and lipstick and pretend to be a woman.

00:14:45.400 I care.

00:14:46.780 I don't want you to do that.

00:14:48.100 I am willing to wield the force of culture and standards and norms and the state to stop

00:14:55.780 you from doing that.

00:14:57.620 That's the conservative response.

00:14:59.460 That's the only way you're going to stop it.

00:15:01.500 You're not going to stop it by winning some debate on YouTube or TikTok.

00:15:07.580 You're not going to stop it by showing someone some statistics and citing some stupid data

00:15:13.900 set about chromosomes.

00:15:14.740 Okay, you're going to win it by pointing out that whatever bizarre perversions are going

00:15:21.000 on in this dude's head, he has a duty and an obligation not to express them, certainly

00:15:26.860 not to express them in public.

00:15:28.340 And then the only other way you're going to win it is by wielding political power to say,

00:15:32.320 no, you don't get to do it.

00:15:34.700 When you go out in public like this, you have to be brought to psychological counseling.

00:15:40.860 If you continue to behave like this, you're going to be committed to an institution.

00:15:44.740 This kind of behavior is obscene.

00:15:46.560 I'm thinking of that shop teacher who showed up to class in Canada with the gigantic triple

00:15:51.160 Z prosthetic breasts and the wig on looking like a complete maniac.

00:15:56.640 The only way you're going to stop it is if you have the courage to wield political power

00:16:03.380 to say, no, you don't get to behave like a crazy person.

00:16:06.440 Why do I care?

00:16:07.560 You know why I care?

00:16:08.400 Because I live in society and I don't want my kids to grow up in this kind of degenerate

00:16:13.340 society.

00:16:13.960 And I don't want to live in this kind of bizarro world, absurd society.

00:16:17.400 I want to live in a nice, good place with good, true and beautiful things around me and

00:16:21.480 people acting as they should and being polite and being normal.

00:16:25.440 Be normal.

00:16:27.020 Come on, folks.

00:16:28.760 Good grief.

00:16:29.280 Is it so much to ask?

00:16:30.440 That we live in a society that is normal because this is becoming normal and I don't want to

00:16:37.560 live in that normal.

00:16:38.180 I don't want to live in the new normal, okay?

00:16:40.300 I want to live in a good, traditional society.

00:16:46.300 Is that so much to ask?

00:16:46.980 I don't think it is.

00:16:48.100 So how do you get to that society?

00:16:49.400 What's the basis of that society?

00:16:50.760 The answer is Christianity.

00:16:55.520 This was the topic of my speech last night.

00:16:57.480 The speech was on our far-right, semi-fascist, radical, extreme founding fathers in the way

00:17:02.760 that our country existed until about five minutes ago.

00:17:06.140 But the basis of that society is Christianity, if you want to have the good, normal society.

00:17:11.000 And that society is slipping away.

00:17:12.640 There's a terrifying report out.

00:17:14.600 It's in all the newspapers.

00:17:15.660 Here it is in the Wall Street Journal.

00:17:16.920 Christian majority in the U.S. could shrink to minority by 2070.

00:17:20.200 This is based on a new survey from Pew Research Center.

00:17:24.480 Shows that nearly a third of people raised in the Christian faith currently leave the

00:17:28.060 religion before turning 30.

00:17:30.420 And an additional 7% do so after that age.

00:17:33.960 If those rates continue, Pew projects that 46% of Americans would identify as Christian by

00:17:38.960 2070.

00:17:40.120 Those with no religious affiliation would stand at about 41%.

00:17:43.540 Christianity would no longer be the majority religion in the U.S.

00:17:47.000 Now, some of us fell away from Christianity long before 30 and then came back.

00:17:54.000 There is a phenomenon of people reverting to the church.

00:17:57.980 And it is this really weird trend that's going on right now.

00:18:00.960 And if you're on the political right, you may have noticed it.

00:18:03.220 At the same time that the whole culture is becoming atheist, irreligious, spiritual but

00:18:07.900 not religious man, you know, that stuff.

00:18:09.720 At the same time that that's happening, you are seeing a major uptick, especially among

00:18:14.420 American political conservatives, in not just Christianity broadly, but in Catholicism.

00:18:21.000 And not just Catholicism broadly, but in traditional Catholicism.

00:18:24.540 You know, the smells and the bells and the Latin mass.

00:18:26.840 Shia LaBeouf saying that he is now converting to Catholicism because of the Latin mass.

00:18:31.840 And he said he's doing that because he felt like at the Latin mass they weren't trying to

00:18:35.340 sell him a car.

00:18:35.940 There's a lot of wisdom in that quote from Shia LaBeouf.

00:18:41.160 Why is this happening?

00:18:43.120 The reason this is happening actually was predicted by Alexei de Tocqueville.

00:18:47.840 So Alexei de Tocqueville, probably the greatest observer of American government.

00:18:52.940 Democracy in America is his famous book written in the early 19th century.

00:18:57.280 And Alexei de Tocqueville predicts in a very not frequently cited passage from that book

00:19:02.680 that in America, Christianity is extremely important to the American character.

00:19:07.580 But over time, Americans will either become Catholics or atheists.

00:19:13.320 That's his prediction.

00:19:14.280 And it seems like a crazy prediction because you say America is a Protestant country.

00:19:17.740 Catholicism is a kind of minority religion in America.

00:19:19.840 That's crazy.

00:19:20.360 How could that happen?

00:19:21.700 Well, Tocqueville doesn't totally explain his reasoning here.

00:19:26.320 But I think the reason is Americans are going to look for authority.

00:19:34.420 They're going to look for what the Catholics call the magisterium.

00:19:37.420 They're going to look for the eternal truths that have endured from 33 AD all the way up

00:19:44.320 to the present.

00:19:45.460 Or they're going to spin off in their kind of own irreligion because there is no authority

00:19:50.420 that they can cling to.

00:19:51.740 Even if they have a denomination that they really like, you know, some version of Protestantism,

00:19:57.020 they're not going to be able to ground that in the kind of historical continuity and authority

00:20:01.060 that is required for a religious group to persist in the long run.

00:20:07.200 So I think this is why, I'm not just saying this is a Catholic because, you know, I'm sort

00:20:10.920 of cheering on that people are coming back to the Catholic Church.

00:20:13.340 I'm just observing this as a trend.

00:20:15.100 It's the very same trend that Tocqueville was observing and predicting, actually, in the 19th

00:20:19.620 century.

00:20:20.080 But don't forget, he gives two choices.

00:20:21.660 He says they're either going to become Catholic or atheist.

00:20:23.920 Well, unfortunately, at the moment, it seems like the atheists are winning.

00:20:26.820 It seems like they're going to, they're giving up.

00:20:28.960 And actually, Tocqueville doesn't say they're going to become atheists.

00:20:31.480 He says they're going to leave Christianity.

00:20:33.260 And that's especially what you're seeing now.

00:20:34.600 It's not even that people are exactly becoming atheists.

00:20:37.140 They're just becoming weirdos.

00:20:38.360 They're becoming crystals people.

00:20:39.660 They're doing all sorts of weird, new agey, occult, demonic, satanic kind of practices.

00:20:44.020 They're like the Biden administration appointees.

00:20:48.140 They're wearing, you know, pentagrams and leather harnesses and changing their sex or

00:20:52.300 attempting to and dressing up in all sorts of weird, bizarre, occult ways.

00:20:56.280 Well, I'm just pointing out, if you want that good, traditional American society where people

00:21:04.980 are flourishing and having a good time and not everyone is being made miserable and not

00:21:08.380 all the social science surveys are showing people getting less and less happy over time,

00:21:12.300 you're going to have to establish your society on the basis of something other than what we

00:21:16.980 currently have.

00:21:17.740 Currently, since the middle of the 20th century, the basis of society, the sort of animating principle,

00:21:23.360 the soul of America, as Joe Biden calls it, has been liberalism, public liberalism, such

00:21:28.100 that you can believe whatever you want in the privacy of your own home.

00:21:30.700 You have the freedom to worship, not the freedom to religion, the freedom to worship.

00:21:34.620 But in public, you've got to just be totally secular and liberal.

00:21:38.740 That's not the traditional American political order.

00:21:41.080 The traditional American political order is really Christian nationalism, is the idea that

00:21:46.660 America is a nation.

00:21:47.700 It's not an empire.

00:21:48.440 It's not a city state.

00:21:49.280 It's a nation with borders.

00:21:51.040 That's a specific form of physical order for the country.

00:21:56.300 And then at the metaphysical level, at the soul level, it's animated by Christianity.

00:21:59.940 Not Zoroastrianism, not Shintoism, not Confucianism, not communism.

00:22:04.660 It's animated by Christianity.

00:22:06.320 That's the kind of spirit of America.

00:22:07.720 That's how America was made great before until very, very recently, certainly until the middle

00:22:13.340 of the 20th century.

00:22:14.600 Since then, we've tried something else.

00:22:15.980 Something else hasn't worked.

00:22:17.100 So I think anybody who wants to restore any kind of good sort of America, anything resembling

00:22:22.980 a normal flourishing country, whether you're Christian, whether you're Jewish, whether you're

00:22:26.260 Muslim, whether you're whatever, the idea here is that America, as America was being

00:22:30.800 made great, as people of all backgrounds and all religions and whatever were coming

00:22:34.300 to America, the basis of America was public Christianity.

00:22:37.940 If you want to make America great again, you've got to get back to that before it's too

00:22:41.760 late.

00:22:42.380 Speaking of authority, Donald Trump is punching back on all of the FBI, DOJ probes and raids

00:22:52.220 into his declassified documents, they argue, which presented a threat to the security of

00:22:59.240 the United States.

00:23:00.140 And it was, they probably had the nuclear codes and Trump almost killed us all because of his

00:23:04.660 closet at Mar-a-Lago.

00:23:06.260 So Trump is arguing that it is, not only did he not have the classified material, not only

00:23:13.600 did he not mishandle classified material, Trump is arguing that he could declassify material

00:23:19.680 simply by thinking about it.

00:23:22.340 Is there a process?

00:23:23.900 What was your process to declassify?

00:23:25.280 There doesn't have to be a process, as I understand it.

00:23:28.200 You know, there's different people say different things, but as I understand, there doesn't have

00:23:31.280 to be.

00:23:31.640 If you're the president of the United States, you can declassify just by saying it's declassified.

00:23:36.060 Even by thinking about it, because you're sending it to Mar-a-Lago or to wherever you're

00:23:41.720 sending it.

00:23:43.080 And there doesn't have to be a process.

00:23:45.940 There can be a process, but there doesn't have to be.

00:23:48.320 You're the president.

00:23:49.080 You make that decision.

00:23:50.460 So when you send it, it's declassified.

00:23:53.040 We, I declassified everything.

00:23:56.520 Now, I declassified things and we were having a lot of problems with NARA.

00:23:59.780 You know, NARA is a radical left group of people running that thing.

00:24:04.340 And when you send documents over there, I would say there's a very good chance that

00:24:09.200 a lot of those documents will never be seen again.

00:24:11.720 There's also a lot of speculation because of what they did, the severity of the FBI coming

00:24:16.900 and raiding Mar-a-Lago.

00:24:19.340 Were they looking for the Hillary Clinton emails that were deleted, but they are around someplace?

00:24:23.940 So Trump is saying, he's making a good observation.

00:24:26.940 He's saying they obviously didn't go after Hillary this way.

00:24:29.360 And Hillary had, not only did she have more urgent documents that were contemporary documents,

00:24:35.160 they were documents while she was secretary of state, not documents from the past when

00:24:38.880 she was in office, as was the case with Trump.

00:24:41.120 But furthermore, he's saying Hillary did not have this ultimate right to declassify stuff.

00:24:45.860 And I, as president, did.

00:24:47.300 And I didn't have to follow a procedure and I could declassify it with a magic wand.

00:24:51.740 I could declassify it by saying these are declassified.

00:24:54.080 I could declassify documents simply by thinking these documents are declassified.

00:25:00.820 And so what people are going to hear is, ah, there's Trump's hyperbole again.

00:25:04.600 There's Mr. Trump, Mr. Exaggerator.

00:25:07.320 He's right.

00:25:08.860 He's right.

00:25:10.660 Now, he has this caveat here.

00:25:12.200 He says, look, different people have different opinions.

00:25:14.300 And that's true.

00:25:14.860 The reason it's still something of an open debate is because this has never been brought

00:25:21.920 up before.

00:25:23.140 No one, no DOJ has ever had the audacity to go after a former president for mishandling

00:25:30.020 classified documents.

00:25:31.740 Plenty of presidents have taken documents from the White House.

00:25:35.420 Most, if not all of the modern presidents have done that.

00:25:38.100 DOJ has never gone after them.

00:25:39.820 And in part, this might be because of the strange historical circumstance that Trump is not just

00:25:43.680 the former president.

00:25:44.720 He's the current top political rival to the incumbent president who has all but said that

00:25:49.340 he's running for president in 2024.

00:25:51.380 So yes, it's a sort of open question.

00:25:53.840 But the answer to that question, it's again, it's that the liberals taking this tiny little

00:25:57.180 grain of almost tiny little bit of truth and then constructing a big lie around it.

00:26:01.780 The answer to that question, obviously, is that Trump is right.

00:26:05.000 Of course, the president can declassify whatever he wants, whenever and however he wants to

00:26:10.900 do it.

00:26:12.320 Otherwise, you have a kind of inversion of the constitutional order.

00:26:16.460 Otherwise, the president is then required to get the permission of some random bureaucrat at

00:26:25.460 the DOJ.

00:26:26.740 And that is not how our system works.

00:26:28.840 It's certainly not how our system is supposed to work.

00:26:31.100 However, the president is not supposed to be responsible and accountable to some middling

00:26:36.300 careerist employee at one of his own agencies in the executive branch.

00:26:41.060 That's insane.

00:26:42.740 Of course, the president has to have ultimate declassification authority.

00:26:50.120 This is just a political hit job on Trump.

00:26:52.260 It's not the only one.

00:26:53.260 We mentioned earlier this week that Letitia James, the Democrat AG in New York, who ran for

00:26:58.260 office on a campaign of taking down Donald Trump.

00:27:01.340 Letitia James is now bringing suit against Trump for some fraud in his businesses.

00:27:07.380 And she's saying that Donald Trump exaggerated his wealth.

00:27:10.580 Wow.

00:27:10.860 Breaking news.

00:27:11.720 Stop the presses.

00:27:12.420 Donald Trump may have at some point or another exaggerated a little bit, particularly about

00:27:16.400 his health.

00:27:16.680 Wow.

00:27:16.820 No one ever saw that one coming.

00:27:18.120 Of course they did.

00:27:19.060 That's part of the guy's whole brand.

00:27:20.340 And even Bill Barr, Trump's former attorney general, who now they seem to have a pretty

00:27:25.460 frosty relationship.

00:27:26.440 Barr has been very critical of Trump at times.

00:27:29.340 Bill Barr has even raised the prospect that Trump may have broken some law with the classified

00:27:33.180 documents.

00:27:34.080 Even Bill Barr is coming out and saying, this probe in New York, this is a total political

00:27:37.740 hit job.

00:27:38.260 What ultimately persuades me that this is a political hit job is she grossly overreaches

00:27:46.100 when she tries to drag the children into this.

00:27:48.860 Yes, they had roles in the business, but this was his personal financial statement.

00:27:53.720 It was prepared by the CFO.

00:27:56.900 Accounting firms were involved in it.

00:27:59.320 The children aren't going to know the details of that and be able, nor are they expected in

00:28:04.140 the real world to do their own due diligence and have it reviewed independently.

00:28:08.640 And so this to me looks like gross overreach, which I think is going to end up backfiring

00:28:13.520 on them because I think it will make people sympathetic for Trump, that this is another

00:28:17.520 example of people piling on because of Trump derangement syndrome, this strong desire to

00:28:25.220 punish him.

00:28:28.160 So Bill Barr, who everyone knows doesn't exactly love Donald Trump, he's saying this is so

00:28:33.580 ridiculous.

00:28:34.460 And of course, I've been saying this for many months now.

00:28:38.660 It is a prosecution in search of a crime in so many levels.

00:28:43.460 Going after Trump at the federal level because of the election claims, going after Trump at

00:28:47.480 the state level because of the election claims, the New York attorney general looking into the

00:28:51.240 Trump organization and Trump's business dealings, the FBI raiding Mar-a-Lago over the classified

00:28:56.000 documents.

00:28:56.460 It's all just BS.

00:28:57.960 It's a political hit job to attack Donald Trump because the libs think that he is the top

00:29:02.780 prospect in 2024.

00:29:05.020 But there is actually some question about that now.

00:29:07.500 There is a crazy new number out of Florida.

00:29:10.160 A new poll finds that since January, Republicans in Florida have significantly changed their

00:29:17.320 presidential preference.

00:29:19.480 And Ron DeSantis, even Ron DeSantis, the governor of Florida, was trailing Trump in Florida pretty

00:29:24.180 significantly.

00:29:25.040 Now he's flipped that.

00:29:26.240 Now DeSantis is leading Trump in Florida for president in 2024 by the same margin that Trump

00:29:33.220 had been leading DeSantis at the beginning of the year.

00:29:36.560 This according to a USA Today Suffolk University poll.

00:29:39.960 On top of that, DeSantis has raised $177.4 million.

00:29:44.320 That's more than any other governor in history.

00:29:46.860 And he's giving a lot of it away.

00:29:48.540 He's currying favor with lots of other Republican candidates to help them win around the country.

00:29:52.300 Again, I still think today, if the primary were held today, Trump would most likely blow

00:29:59.940 it out of the water.

00:30:01.060 That's still where most of the numbers are.

00:30:03.220 But the question has been recently, can there be movement?

00:30:07.320 DeSantis, you know, he's running, he's in the national media all the time.

00:30:12.640 Is he, does he have the oomph to overtake Donald Trump?

00:30:15.960 This is the very first time.

00:30:17.760 And granted, it's, it's in DeSantis' state, but this is the very first time that you're

00:30:22.440 seeing this kind of movement where people might be scratching their heads and saying,

00:30:25.880 wow, even if Donald Trump runs, could someone like a Ron DeSantis make a credible play for

00:30:33.160 president and beat him?

00:30:34.660 There are a lot of people who are signaling, hey, maybe I'll run.

00:30:36.920 I'm going to run even if Trump runs.

00:30:38.780 Pompeo, Nikki Haley is doing that.

00:30:41.000 Ron DeSantis has been a little more subtly suggesting that and going around and raising money.

00:30:45.540 Other candidates too.

00:30:46.420 And it's probably BS.

00:30:49.780 Probably people are, are not going to run if Trump runs.

00:30:55.020 But if you're getting numbers like this, and if DeSantis sees this kind of movement in a few

00:30:58.520 other states, you might get an actual primary in 2024.

00:31:02.920 Now we've got a brand new show coming out tonight on Daily Wire Plus.

00:31:06.140 It's called Breakaways with Alison Williams.

00:31:08.440 If you have not heard, Alison was a successful ESPN sideline reporter.

00:31:12.440 When ESPN insisted everyone get the Fauci ouchie, she refused.

00:31:15.320 Why? Because she was trying to get pregnant and was worried about potential side effects

00:31:19.660 of the vaccine.

00:31:20.820 Rather than take the risk, she quit.

00:31:23.600 On Breakaways, Alison sits down with athletes who took a stand for their beliefs.

00:31:27.500 The first four episodes feature Jonathan Isaac, Nick Rolovich,

00:31:30.740 Inez Cantor-Freedom, and Dana White.

00:31:33.460 Those episodes will be available tonight at 7 p.m. Eastern, and the remaining four are coming soon.

00:31:37.960 Head on over to dailywireplus.com right now to become a member and watch the series tonight.

00:31:42.880 Now, finally, we have arrived at my absolute favorite time of the week when I get to hear

00:31:47.880 from you in the mailbag.

00:31:49.120 The mailbag is sponsored by Pure Talk.

00:31:50.660 Go to puretalk.com, select a plan, enter promo code Knowles to get one month free.

00:31:54.840 Without further ado, let's hear from the voice mailbag.

00:31:59.060 Hi, Mr. Knowles.

00:32:00.440 I live in metro Atlanta with my family.

00:32:04.280 Recently, Marjorie Taylor Greene has gotten a lot of press here for her stance on abortion

00:32:08.200 and some other local topics.

00:32:10.940 She, no one represents my district.

00:32:12.900 I have moved.

00:32:14.780 We live in a bluer town now, and my husband and I have been discussing how best to campaign

00:32:18.580 for our representatives.

00:32:20.380 We feel like having signs in our yard would put a target on our property.

00:32:27.000 And we have the means and will to protect ourselves if it came to it, but we obviously don't want

00:32:31.480 undue conflict.

00:32:33.440 What can we and other conservatives do in a situation like this to stand up for our beliefs,

00:32:37.380 but not become a target in blue areas?

00:32:40.480 I want to raise my four-month-old to stand up for what he believes in, but I also don't

00:32:44.640 want to put him in undue danger.

00:32:46.940 Thanks.

00:32:47.660 You've got to take stock of the actual danger that you are in.

00:32:51.300 Okay?

00:32:51.780 So you've got to use your prudence here a little bit.

00:32:54.900 If you are in a basically nice community that is basically normal, but you're just afraid

00:33:01.980 because at the national level, the libs are getting very aggressive and violent, then

00:33:05.820 I think you can feel fine putting the sign up there.

00:33:07.820 Then I think it's probably worth the risk.

00:33:09.580 If you're living in a community where people very likely are going to attack you for this,

00:33:16.060 then I don't think you're under any obligation to put the sign up.

00:33:18.600 You know, we're called to be wise as serpents and innocent as doves, not the other way around.

00:33:23.080 So I think there are certainly other ways to support candidates.

00:33:26.140 The easiest way is with money.

00:33:28.260 Well, it's not the easiest way for everybody, but it's the most direct way.

00:33:31.500 Campaigns need money in order to win.

00:33:32.980 So if you're in a position to donate money, you can do that.

00:33:35.860 You can donate your time.

00:33:37.160 Campaigns rely on free work from volunteers.

00:33:40.120 I've been on plenty of campaigns with plenty of volunteers, and that kind of work is invaluable

00:33:44.080 when you get someone really committed to the cause.

00:33:45.860 Making phone calls and knocking on doors, that can be a great thing that you can do.

00:33:50.120 Organizing through civic associations, that can be really, really important.

00:33:53.720 So even if you don't want to go out door to door and open yourself up, you know, if you're just,

00:33:57.380 or cold calling random people, if you just want to organize your friends, right, and maybe you can

00:34:04.980 have a little hodgepodge of these things, host a fundraiser, so you invite, you know, your wealthier

00:34:08.640 friends over, give a little bit of money to a campaign.

00:34:11.220 That's one thing you can do as well.

00:34:12.580 You can get involved in some issues.

00:34:14.140 So you get involved at the school board level, right?

00:34:16.140 You get involved at the county level or the township level, and you're working on specific

00:34:22.000 issues of taxation, of local ordinances.

00:34:24.320 That's a way then you're not necessarily supporting a candidate.

00:34:27.840 Very often at the local level, candidates are nonpartisan anyway.

00:34:31.040 There are ways to do it.

00:34:32.600 The political involvement, this is something the left is really good at, it happens everywhere.

00:34:37.220 It's from the very smallest kind of school board race to the smallest little referendum

00:34:41.840 on a budget all the way up to president of the United States.

00:34:44.000 So you can get involved that way.

00:34:46.700 And you should err on the side, I think, of courage.

00:34:49.700 But this is why prudence is a virtue too, okay?

00:34:52.060 You are not under an obligation to put yourself into danger.

00:34:55.440 We know that things are a little different now than they were 20 years ago.

00:34:58.280 The libs are openly calling for violence against conservatives.

00:35:01.040 Not just crazy libs, well, they are all crazy, but not just random fringe libs.

00:35:05.340 We're talking about Democrat elected officials.

00:35:07.820 We're talking about the vice president of the United States bailing out rioters who attack

00:35:12.380 people in the streets and commit crimes.

00:35:14.240 We're talking about staff members for Joe Biden doing the same thing.

00:35:16.640 We're talking about Hillary saying, don't be civil with Republicans.

00:35:18.760 We're talking about Maxine Waters saying, go attack Republicans, go find them where they

00:35:22.240 are, where their children sleep.

00:35:23.320 So that's a situation that means you are not required to put your family in danger.

00:35:27.520 You've just got to use prudence.

00:35:28.980 Next question.

00:35:29.500 Hi, Michael.

00:35:31.300 This is Brian from Ireland, listening to you in the Czech Republic.

00:35:35.180 I'm a new subscriber.

00:35:36.600 I love your show.

00:35:38.040 I was pleased to hear you mention the European energy crisis yesterday.

00:35:42.940 This is getting pretty bad, I have to say, over here.

00:35:46.640 And various governments are now introducing price caps, which we know is not really going

00:35:52.320 to do anything because it's like stepping on the end of a hose.

00:35:54.680 The water is just going to get out somewhere else.

00:35:58.940 And industry is really worried about these prices at the moment, that they're just so

00:36:04.580 high that the likes of steel manufacturers and all kinds of heavy industry are just basically

00:36:11.640 shutting down or are at least going to.

00:36:16.120 So my question really is, from your slightly more detached position in America, how do you

00:36:22.160 see this going for Europe over the winter?

00:36:24.480 Pleased to get your thoughts on this.

00:36:26.160 Okay, thanks.

00:36:26.820 Bye-bye.

00:36:27.600 Terribly.

00:36:28.440 I'm sorry to tell you, I see this going terribly for Europe over the winter.

00:36:32.880 And this is because, obviously, Putin has invaded Ukraine.

00:36:36.980 That's the direct cause of it.

00:36:39.000 But this is also caused by really stupid Western policies with regard to Russia and Ukraine

00:36:43.920 and with regard to energy for a long time.

00:36:47.380 The thing that no one wants to say, that we're not really supposed to say, but is nevertheless

00:36:50.980 true and very serious American statesmen and foreign policy watchers from George Kennan

00:36:56.360 to Henry Kissinger to all sorts of people saw this coming, to Michael Knowles, saw this

00:37:00.940 sort of thing coming.

00:37:02.400 The West has been provoking Russia steadily since the end of the Cold War.

00:37:07.100 The West has been expanding NATO, in some cases in a way that's totally normal and understandable,

00:37:12.340 in some cases in a way that is provocative and reckless and totally unnecessary since the

00:37:16.880 end of the Cold War.

00:37:18.220 And the Western involvement in and after the 2014 coup in Ukraine is problematic.

00:37:26.280 And in Putin's words, in his speech that launched the war, Putin said that this is an unacceptable

00:37:32.660 security threat that you've got NATO on the border of Russia.

00:37:35.580 Now, NATO comes in and says, no, no, no, we're just a defensive alliance.

00:37:38.260 You have nothing to worry about from us, Russia.

00:37:41.000 Oh, yeah, tell that to Libya.

00:37:43.500 Oh, yeah, tell that to Iraq.

00:37:45.420 Oh, yeah, please tell me that NATO is a defensive alliance to all the countries that NATO has

00:37:50.460 invaded.

00:37:51.000 Again, I'm not saying that NATO was necessarily wrong to invade those countries.

00:37:54.960 In the cases that I cited, you know, especially Libya, I don't think that was a good idea.

00:37:58.920 But I'm just observing a fact, NATO has been proactive as well, not just defensive.

00:38:06.700 And so when Putin says it's an unacceptable security risk to have NATO on the border of

00:38:11.600 Russia, specifically in Ukraine, which is such an important territory from the national

00:38:16.020 standpoint of Russia, then you've got a provocation that at least makes you understand why Putin

00:38:23.700 considers this such a big risk.

00:38:25.520 Furthermore, the Europeans and the Americans, but especially the Europeans, allowed themselves

00:38:30.020 to get totally played by Russia in particular when they dismantled their energy industry.

00:38:36.700 When Russia, very likely funding environmentalist groups, went in and said, hey, Europe, you've

00:38:42.440 got to get rid of your gas production.

00:38:44.040 Hey, Europe, you've got to get rid of your oil production.

00:38:46.720 Hey, hey, West, more broadly, in the name of stopping the sun monster, you've got to get

00:38:51.840 rid of the way that you can sustain your entire civilization.

00:38:56.140 You're going to get rid of your most important energy sectors.

00:39:00.600 What's the effect of that?

00:39:01.640 In Europe, what that means is that Europe is just now reliant on Russian gas and oil.

00:39:05.440 Now, Donald Trump predicted this.

00:39:07.180 He said this is a terrible idea.

00:39:08.520 In fact, the immediate cause of the war in Ukraine was the very fact that Joe Biden took

00:39:14.180 sanctions off of Russia's Nord Stream 2 pipeline.

00:39:17.120 And then when Russia was able to, or believed it was going to be able to send oil and gas

00:39:22.520 directly to Europe, they invade Ukraine.

00:39:24.780 Again, this is not just my own rantings.

00:39:26.720 This is what the president of Ukraine, Vladimir Zelensky, said.

00:39:29.880 He said, you guys are causing this by lifting these sanctions.

00:39:32.700 And then what happened exactly what we all predicted.

00:39:35.440 So that's the 30,000 foot view of all the stupid decisions that the West has made to

00:39:40.960 put themselves in this vulnerable position.

00:39:43.180 What would I do now?

00:39:44.920 The first thing that I would do right now if I were in making the decisions in Brussels

00:39:49.480 for Europe or in the United States is I would ramp up, and I would have done this six months

00:39:54.560 or a year ago, but I would ramp up as quickly as possible domestic energy production.

00:39:59.920 Oil, gas, dirty, rotten, filthy coal, just anything you can to get energy.

00:40:04.900 It's going to be a very, very cold winter.

00:40:06.720 And I don't think that we should be sacrificing our poor people and our elderly people and

00:40:10.880 our vulnerable people to Mother Gaia, you know, in the name of stopping global warming.

00:40:15.440 I think we need to heat our homes.

00:40:17.600 And I think we need to fuel our civilization, especially now if we're getting into an ever

00:40:21.440 escalating war with a nuclear form or superpower, okay?

00:40:24.620 Do it.

00:40:25.420 Drill, baby, drill.

00:40:26.860 Get that energy out there.

00:40:28.800 And if not, I hold the European leaders responsible.

00:40:31.400 Next question.

00:40:32.840 Hi, Michael.

00:40:33.880 I would like to get your take on a personal issue.

00:40:37.040 I am seeking your perspective about a couple with differences of opinion with some pretty

00:40:41.520 important topics.

00:40:42.400 I will give you an example of one.

00:40:45.620 I am very conservative.

00:40:47.600 My fiance sort of is on some things, but he's indifferent about others.

00:40:52.960 I have conservative values and I use those values when raising my children.

00:40:57.640 An example would be he sees no harm in smoking weed from time to time.

00:41:01.560 Despite not having done it in 11 years, he has suddenly taken interest in it again.

00:41:06.460 We are in our 30s with two children, only one of whom is biologically mine.

00:41:11.100 I understand young people who might try different substances.

00:41:14.940 I was not one of them, never have been, but I have several friends who have in their younger

00:41:19.880 days.

00:41:20.640 But as a father and a soon-to-be husband, am I asking too much to expect that he should

00:41:24.800 be more responsible?

00:41:26.280 I don't want marijuana in my house.

00:41:28.220 I don't want my kids finding it.

00:41:29.920 I want to set a strong, moral, and not to mention healthy standard for my children because

00:41:34.900 the world won't give it to them.

00:41:36.960 Thanks, Michael.

00:41:37.980 Love the show.

00:41:38.560 Of course, you are well within your rights to say, hey, I don't want drugs in my house.

00:41:45.420 Even a drug that we're told is not that big a deal like marijuana.

00:41:48.780 You are absolutely well within your rights to tell your husband that and you should tell

00:41:52.580 him to stop trying to relive his college days and get with the program and grow up.

00:41:58.300 Now, some people are going to push back, as always happens when I come after the old Haitian

00:42:02.440 oregano, the old devil's lettuce, and they'll say, Michael, pot's not that big a deal.

00:42:05.660 There's no problems.

00:42:06.340 It's not addictive.

00:42:07.200 It's really great.

00:42:07.860 It cures cancer, whatever nonsense people say.

00:42:10.780 First of all, the claims that marijuana is not addictive seem to be falling apart because

00:42:16.300 people do get addicted to it, if not physically, certainly psychologically.

00:42:20.180 And it does cause some problems.

00:42:21.760 The way that people consume marijuana these days leads to neurosis, leads to anxiety, can

00:42:28.320 lead to psychosis.

00:42:29.880 It leads to all sorts of mental problems.

00:42:32.000 You don't want your kids involved in that because at the very least, one disease that

00:42:38.100 marijuana is definitely linked to is laying on the couch eating potato chipsitis.

00:42:44.900 One problem that the old devil's lettuce is definitely linked to is people just becoming

00:42:50.120 big stoner losers who don't do anything and don't want to get a job and don't feel particularly

00:42:55.780 motivated.

00:42:56.320 Now, I'm not saying it's true for everybody.

00:42:58.400 Some people can smoke a doobie, spark up a jazz cigarette, and function perfectly fine

00:43:04.240 in society.

00:43:05.260 But it is a problem.

00:43:06.420 It's a legitimate fear, especially if you've got kids in the house.

00:43:08.480 So yeah, I think you ought to bring that up with your husband.

00:43:13.620 And it's going to be difficult.

00:43:14.820 Obviously, there's a little bit of a values misalignment here, as we call it.

00:43:18.560 And so I don't envy the position that you're in.

00:43:21.580 But I would present it as not just a sort of nagging or scolding or moralizing, but say,

00:43:26.120 look, I like you the way you are.

00:43:28.620 I don't think that you're going to be improved by smoking the Peruvian parsley.

00:43:33.580 I think the only thing that could happen is you become more of a loser.

00:43:37.160 And I don't think our kids' lives are going to be improved by having pot in the house.

00:43:41.680 And so regardless of what you think about the science of marijuana or whatever BS stoner

00:43:47.340 nonsense you're hearing, just from a personal level, honey, would you mind making a little

00:43:53.840 sacrifice and giving up the old California?

00:44:00.320 Man, I can't think of another pun.

00:44:01.800 I've run out of puns.

00:44:02.700 California cumin?

00:44:03.700 I don't know.

00:44:04.300 You've got to give it up.

00:44:06.060 Would you mind just giving it up for me, please, honey?

00:44:07.920 I'm just asking you to do that.

00:44:08.820 That's what I think I would do.

00:44:11.680 And then, I don't know, get your husband to smoke normal things like tobacco.

00:44:16.040 All right, next question.

00:44:18.080 Mr. Knowles, as a Service Academy graduate and a military officer, the education skill

00:44:23.880 set of myself and my peers, combined with our patriotism and desire to serve, means that

00:44:29.600 most of us strongly consider federal service after the military.

00:44:33.500 How can we uphold our conservative values while working for agencies like the FBI, ATF, or

00:44:39.020 IRS?

00:44:39.320 Should we even apply to work at these institutions or take our education and skills somewhere

00:44:45.440 else, which could be challenging?

00:44:47.560 Thank you for all you do.

00:44:48.800 My wife and I have been considering Catholicism and attending mass largely due to your influence.

00:44:53.040 Thanks.

00:44:53.680 All right.

00:44:54.100 I'm so pleased to hear that.

00:44:55.000 Yes, I am of the opinion that if you are so inclined and you want to work for the FBI,

00:44:59.420 but you fear working for the FBI or you have some hesitation because the FBI has been largely

00:45:05.240 corrupted by the libs, I would suggest you go do it anyway.

00:45:09.080 The libs are really good at infiltrating the institutions and taking political power and

00:45:12.540 then wielding it.

00:45:13.340 And we're not that good at it.

00:45:14.700 We kind of throw our hands in the air and say, oh, well, it's all ruined.

00:45:17.340 Never mind.

00:45:17.800 Give it up.

00:45:18.860 If there is a chance that you think you could do some good there and right the ship, I'm

00:45:26.240 all for that.

00:45:27.720 I am all for that.

00:45:29.160 I do not think we should let the perfect get in the way of the good.

00:45:32.700 I think absolutely get in there.

00:45:34.080 If you're going to graduate, work at the FBI, don't compromise your morals.

00:45:39.640 Don't become just a tool for the libs.

00:45:41.300 Don't follow the sticks and carrots that they're going to lay out for you to just become one

00:45:45.520 of their puppets.

00:45:46.380 But if you can go in there and hold firm and stick to what you believe in and make the country

00:45:50.340 better, I love it.

00:45:51.520 That's why I think conservatives should become teachers.

00:45:53.500 That's why I think conservatives should get out there into all of these fields and then

00:45:57.380 wield that power.

00:45:59.620 Do that kind of unglamorous work of wielding the power to push the libs to the sidelines

00:46:05.920 and actually give us a good country again.

00:46:07.420 Okay.

00:46:07.720 The rest of the show is continuing now.

00:46:10.760 You know that this is Friday.

00:46:13.440 That means that Mr. Ben Davies, my producer, has given me five headlines from the week.

00:46:18.480 Four are real.

00:46:19.420 One is fake.

00:46:20.520 We have to figure out which one the fake one is.

00:46:22.180 Also, because it's mailbag day, I will be taking more of your mailbag questions, like the

00:46:25.500 mailbag questions that are actually written in, in the old-fashioned mailbag.

00:46:30.020 So make sure you head on over there.

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Ep. 1094 - The Democrat Fantasy World Is A Nightmare

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